The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (45 page)

Justice Bureau, 190

Kremlinology, 18

Kuomintang, 123–5

labour law, 214

Ladany, Laszlo, 77

Lai Changxing, 159

law firms, Party control of, 23

lawyers, 15, 25, 30, 265

Party membership, 23

in Sanlu case, 189, 190, 193

leadership

battles over, 3

succession, 153–4, 163

Lee Teng-hui, 127–8

Legal Daily
, on Sanlu case, 187

legal professionals
see
judges; lawyers legal system

Party control of, 15, 22–5

PLA members in, 114

see also
judges; lawyers

Lenin, Vladimir

establishes Orgburo, 76

ruling model, xiii, 12, 14

Lenovo, 204

‘les énarques’, 9

‘Li Bu’, 77

Li Changchun, 279n

Li Changjiang, 183, 191

Li Datong, 235, 248, 249–52

Li Fangping, 189, 190

Li Fanping, 264, 265

Li Gang, 70, 98–9

Li Jijun, Lieutenant-General, 245

Li Jinai, General, 107

Li Ka-shing, 158

Li Keqiang, 23–4, 279n

Li Lihui, 53

Li Liming, 101, 102, 103

Li Peng, 81, 148, 239

Li Rucheng, 216

Li Rui, 240–41, 242–4, 247

Li Ruigang, 238

Li Ruihuan, 253

Li Weimin (fictional), 95–6

Li Wenyao, 257–8

Li Xiaopeng, 283n

Li Yongzhong, 146

Li Youxing, 142

Li Yuanchao, 72, 75, 89–90, 91–2

Li Zhaoxing, 125

Liang Jing, 179

liberal economics, 28–9

Liberation Army Daily
, 107–8

Liberation Daily
, 242

life style

of top-ranked party members, 10

of urban citizens, 27

The Lighthorseman
, 242

Lin Chong-pin, 134

Linfen, 82

Liu Baiyu, 78

Liu Mingkang, 66–7

Liu Shihui, 265

Liu Xiaobo, 261–2

Liu Yonghao, 215

Liu Yongxing, 194, 219, 220, 223–5

Liu Zhihua, 138

Liu Zhongde, 229, 237

local economy, 174–5

localities

vs. central, 90–93, 172–4, 180–81

competitiveness, 175–7, 178

and new tax policy, 179–80

Lou Jiwei, x–xi, 59–60

Lu Hao, 236

Lu Weidong, 20–21

Luo Gan, 25

Lushan meeting, 243

Ma De, 93–4, 97–8, 99–100, 103

Ma Jinlong, 218

Ma Ying-jeou, 126, 130

Mackenzie, Kelvin, 18

Major, Bob, 186

Mao Yushi, 261

Mao Zedong, 105, 253

and Central Organization Department, 76

death, body preservation and verdict on, 244–6, 247

and Gang of Four, 149

and Great Leap Forward, 231

image of, 6, 246–7

at Lushan meeting, 243

nominates successor, 154

on Party and people, 13–14

status of, 241–2

market reforms, outcomes of, 42

Marketing Dictatorship
(Brady), 236

McKinsey & Co, 88, 181

meals, invitation for, 71

media

on anti-Japanese protests, 271

censorship, 235–6, 237–8, 247–8, 250–52

on corruption, 144, 155, 160, 161, 166

focus of, 18–19

on food scandals, 183, 184

less restriction on, 268

official campaigns on military loyalty to Party, 107–9

Party’s guidelines for, 237, 248–9

Sanlu’s PR effect on, 185

on Taiwan issue, 127

uniformed announcement of new leadership, 4

melamine, 184–5

Mengniu, 181–2

Merrill Lynch, 47, 48–9

Miao Shouliang, 206

middle class, 205, 266

money worship, 132–3

rich list, 205–7

size of, 28

milk powder case
see
Sanlu

Miller, Alice, 21

mining, 82, 192–3

Ministry of Personnel, 80

minying
, 200

Mitsubishi, 54–5

Moeller Villa, 161

money worship, 132–4

Morgan Stanley, 52, 181

Mulvenon, James, 108

Murdoch, Rupert, 17

Naipaul, V.S., 30

name cards, 70

Namibia case, 148

Nanjing, 180–81

National Day parade, 263–4

National People’s Congress, 49

1977, 44

1987, 36

2002, 153, 154, 208

2004, 129

2007, 1–4, 11–12, 67, 125, 137

2009, 24, 25

Nationalist Party, 123–5

navy, xvi

NCO system, 117, 118

new conservatives, 38–9

New York Times
, 245

New Zealand, in milk scandal, 188

NGOs, 211

Ni Hanwei, 31

Nian Guangjiu, 194–6, 201

9/11, 270

Ningbo, 162

Nissan, 216–17

Niu Yuqing, 146

Nixon, Richard, 19–20

nomenklatura
system, 78–81

North Korea, 174, 175

novels, genre of, 144

Obama, Barack, xvi

oil

legacy of Daqing, 113, 115

overseas interest, 116

shortage, 63

old boy network’, 9

Olympics, 170–71, 186

one-child policy, 280n

O’Neill, Jim, 277n

Organization Department, Human, 71

Orgburo, 76

Ouroussoff, Nicolai, 19

Ouyang Song, 192

Pan Junxiang, 234–5

Pan Yue, 39–40

Paris, Crillon Ball, 66

Party membership

as a commitment, 11

change of political attire, 66

mid-2009, xiv personal files, 77–8

promotion of, 32

students and the rich expand, 31–2

Party schools, 29, 30, 226–8

patriotism campaign, 236, 270

Paulson, Hank, xi

peanut products scandals, 191

Pei, Minxin, 267

Peking University, centenary, 79, 80

Peng Dehuai, 243

People’s Armed Police, 111

People’s Daily

on banking system, xi

on Japan, 238

People’s Liberation Army, 103

challenges of modern society, 111–12

commercial empire, 114

dual leadership system, 117–20, 121

founding principle of, 105

media campaigns on PLA’a loyalty to Party, 107–9

modernization of, 105–6, 111

officer class, 120–21

Party’s control of, 110

propaganda, 121–2

refuses Tiananmen Square crackdown, 109–10

security and domestic duty, 111, 113–14, 115

on Taiwan issue, 128–9

personal consumption, 269

pet food scandals, 183, 184–5

Petitioner’s Village, 2